Medical Rounds

Baptist St. Anthony's Hospice Grief Education and Support Group winter sessions will begin at 7 p.m. Jan. 31 in the BSA Hospice Den, 600 N. Tyler St. Peter Willis will facilitate.

BSA Hospice's grief education and support groups are free and open to the public. To register, call 212-8777.

The Amarillo College Center for Continuing Healthcare Education will present the program "Advanced Care and Maintenance of Peripheral and Central Venous Access Devices" at 8:30 a.m. Friday at the Amarillo College Business and Industry Center, 1314 S. Polk St. The cost is $59 per person. For more information, call 354-6085.

The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill will meet at 7 p.m. today at the Northwest Texas Healthcare System Pavilion, 7201 Evans Drive. Officers will be elected for 2000. Consumers and family members will have discussion groups.

The West Texas A&M University Division of Nursing will accept applications through Feb. 1 for sophomore-level nursing clinical courses during the fall 2000 semester. For more information, call 651-2634.

The Alzheimer's Association of the Texas Panhandle family discussion group will meet at noon Wednesday at Canyons Retirement Center chapel, 2200 W. Seventh Ave. The program, "Caregiving Changes? They're Good for Your Health," will be led by Vickie Sudbury and Dixie Surratt. For more information, call 372-8693.

Cindy Kinzer was named Firstcare's Employee of the Year for 1999. Kinzer has been employed by Firstcare since 1993 as a medical services assistant in the Amarillo Service Center. She was chosen from Employees of the Month in Amarillo, Austin and Lubbock.

The Women's Center of the Don and Sybil Harrington Cancer Center and Baptist St. Anthony's Health System will continue community breast screening clinics at these locations:

Today - Hansford County Hospital, 712 S. Roland, Spearman.

Friday - Harrington Cancer Center, 1500 Wallace Blvd., Amarillo.

Jan. 31 - Harrington Cancer Center, 1500 Wallace Blvd., Amarillo.

Jan. 31 - Lefors Civic Center, 103 N. Court, Lefors.

Jan. 31 - Muleshoe Area Medical Center, 708 S. First St., Muleshoe.

All exams are done by appointment only. Call 356-1905 or (800) 377-4673 for more information.

The Supportive Care Division of The Don and Sybil Harrington Cancer Center will sponsor Dialogue, a weekly support group for people with cancer, at noon Thursday at the Harrington Cancer Center Amphitheater.

The Texas Tech Medical Center in Lubbock will sponsor "Nurses and the Internet: Getting Started, Application to Practice and Patient Education / Consumer Health" at 8:30 a.m. Friday in room 2C103 of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Lubbock.

Leslie H. Nicoll will lead the session. She is an associate research professor in the Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Services, College of Nursing, a part of the University of Southern Maine. She is a senior research associate and serves as editor-in-chief of Computers in Nursing.